WST 284 - African Dance:Women & Culture

Institution:

University of Rochester

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Description:

This course will focus on dances that pertain to the life-cycle of women. Students will experience dances that celebrate rites of passage such as coming of age, circumcision, marriage, and childbirth. Discussion will center around gender roles in the performance ensemble and the correlation of performance representations with the traditional lifestyle. Students will examine the cultural factors that contribute to the articulation of gender roles in post-colonial West Africa and the relationship of those roles to the performance ensemble. This course will be cross-listed with Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and Women’s Studies for the Spring 2011 semester.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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